I don't know if I agree with that. It's not that I'm overly optimistic about these changes, but I do know that we fans see and judge coaching based on game day performance. If we see a player miss a tackle, we blame the player or issue the infamous "he sucks, cut him now" rants.

Good coaches can teach better techniques and sometimes, different coaches will use different coaching styles and angles to reach some players that the previous coaches couldn't. Coughlin came in and taught Tiki Barber how to hold the ball differently which greatly helped reduce his penchant for fumbling quite often. Coaches like Jim Fassel, Sean Payton, etc. were Tiki's coaches before Coughlin arrived yet they did nothing that helped with that.

More than anything, coaching changes of any kind bring excitement and optimism to players. When Wade Phillips was fired mid-season, Pasqualoni came in and did a decent (not awesome, just decent) job which was still an improvement over the previous games.

That said, I agree and most everyone does that it all starts in the trenches. We can have the best skill players and the best coaching staff, but if we do not control the trenches, none of that will matter. We definitely need some player changes especially in the trench and cog positions.

/reality

Was Hudson Houck a good OL coach? Is Bill Callahan? Why can't either of these men make our line look even average? Because that's all that's wrong with this offense.

Why didn't adding Brandon Carr and Morris Claiborne, as well as getting back Mike Jenkins have any impact whatsoever on our defense?

Too many holes up front. We just do not control the line of scrimmage on offense and opposing QB's are too comfortable in the pocket against our defense.

It's not that I think coaching is overrated. I just think we had good coaches. So replacing them with more good coaches doesn't fix anything.

The entire argument is silly since we haven't hit the draft or FA, yet.

Unless you think we had the best coaching staff in the league last year, there is always reason to upgrade the coaching. And I don't see how Callahan is all that responsible for the mess. He's been here for 1-year as was the O-Line coach.

And we purely lost some people because they wanted to go elsewhere, like DeCamillis.

To me, there needs to be changes in the coaching staff and in the roster. You can only make coaching changes at this current time. Give it another 6 weeks and that will hopefully change.

The entire argument is silly since we haven't hit the draft or FA, yet.

Unless you think we had the best coaching staff in the league last year, there is always reason to upgrade the coaching. And I don't see how Callahan is all that responsible for the mess. He's been here for 1-year as was the O-Line coach.

Best staff in the league? I wouldn't go there. But if you feel you have a quality staff, there's something to be said for continuity. Especially in a win or else season next year.

I heard the same rallying cry against Hudson Houck when he retired and how Bill Callahan was going to have all the answers. He didn't. He won't have any answers next year either if the players don't change.

Coaching wasn't an issue last year. That's a fan and fake GM cop out. These new coaches will fail too unless we upgrade the roster.

jerry is doing what he's been doing the last 15 years. throwing more coaching at a personnel problem. people who think jerry is sending smokescreens from his comments about the oline are setting themselves up for dissappointment. hopefully people now know why i guarantee jason will be fired a year from now. any coach who works under this psychopath is being set up to fail.

jerry is doing what he's been doing the last 15 years. throwing more coaching at a personnel problem. people who think jerry is sending smokescreens from his comments about the oline are setting themselves up for dissappointment. hopefully people now know why i guarantee jason will be fired a year from now. any coach who works under this psychopath is being set up to fail.

Right. Because he can not evaluate talent and neither can his own VP of Personnel. He's also surrounded himself with yes men. Nobody's got the stones to tell him what he's done with this team and how far away it really is from being a contender.

I'm sure he's going to go into FA with the thinking that a tweak here and there is all that's needed. Get healthy and coach em up. Same story. Different year. Jason Garrett's expiration date is 1/14. And the masses will rejoice.

That was Aikman's feelings about the coaching changes in Big D. He just said this on the radio (The Ticket). He basically felt its still the same players running the same plays

I got the sense he felt that talent upgrade would make them better, but as far as coaching it won't matter because Callahan will be calling the same plays he had influence on last season.

This is in line with a lot of what I've been saying, that more than anything this team needs to upgrade the trenches, namely the OL, with DL a close second, and finally upgrades at one WR and FS spot.

I agree. We can talk play calling all day long but in the end if players do not execute then it does not matter what plays are being called or who is calling them. A play only works if the players go out and do the job of execution. You blow assignments and the play is doomed.

Funny how early in the season Dallas struggled to put up points and yet over the last 8 games as Dez finally stepped up his game and became a big weapon the Cowboys avg 28 points per game over the final 8.

To get consistency out of the offense they must make improvements along the OL.